Longhorn Cattle at Murray Farm and Ranch

This video is about longhorn cattle at Murray Farm and Ranch. Follow along as we highlight some of our cattle on an early morning walk in the pasture. To view more information on some of our cattle check us out at murraylonghornranch.com.

[@S3dney]

Those cows are so beautiful!

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you! We are blessed with a wonderful herd.

[@casey1653]

I love it. Longhorns are so beautiful ❤️

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you for watching and I agree! They are awesome animals!

[@jenniferjenkins2963]

Can't go wrong with the Murray Ranch we own numerous offspring. Great people and great longhorns

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you guys for the support! There is no greater compliment to a breeder!

[@noelle1225]

New subscriber here. Looking forward to getting to know your longhorns.

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you for watching. I have hopes of getting a lot more content out. My oldest has been wrestling and I help coach so I’ve been in a time crunch but hopefully soon we’ll have some more videos out!

[@noelle1225]

@@murrayfarmranch8447 I’ll be looking forward to it. Stay warm during this cold spell.

[@MiroBG359]

man those are some beautiful cows. The ranch too

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you! They are special to us. Right now we are having some fall calves being born which is like Christmas before Christmas. The ranch is work in progress. Gets a little better every day! Thank you for watching!

[@sueswift8344]

New follower to site and love seeing your ranch, the beautiful longhorns, And the love that is evident you ha e for them. I hope you continui sharing more videos soon! God Bless you and your family!! Sue from Texas.

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you for watching Sue! Yes ma’am we love them. Right now is a really exciting time with them as many are getting ready to calve. Thank you for following our journey!!

[@showtimespeedshop]

Love the videos. Great herd. Keep em coming!!!!

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you! We are really enjoying this new venture! We love sharing what we are doing on the farm! Thank you for the support!

[@colejohnson1530]

Like the videos, keep them coming! Nice place you got there.

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you buddy! We are blessed and thankful!

[@headshrink1]

The little bull calf “He’s A Looker” is really nice. Good name by the way.

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you! The video really doesn’t do the colors justice either!

[@clintreynolds9632]

Those are some beautiful and colorful Longhorns

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you sir! Our program is built around color! We have a bull that is likely double wild type color gene and he really puts the color on his calves.

[@clintreynolds9632]

@@murrayfarmranch8447 y’all are definitely welcome. Just came across that video yesterday. Those Longhorns are some of the most beautiful I’ve ever seen! I’ve never seen the bull though but I bet he’s amazing! Merry Christmas to y’all!

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you so much! I will do a video on him shortly! We will be turning him out on some cows for winter breeding shortly and I’ll put together something about him. Merry Christmas!

[@clintreynolds9632]

@@murrayfarmranch8447 awesome thanks

[@headshrink1]

Beautiful Longhorns and wonderful stories. I’m studying Longhorns at the moment and am thinking of them for my place. Any education you can give me is appreciated.

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you for watching! What part of the world are you from? Longhorns are amazing creatures. I was originally drawn to longhorns because I had always heard they required less maintenance and were hardy. I, at that time, was inexperienced and didn’t want fickle animals that had difficulty calving and so forth. We have been raising them for years now and my love for them has only grown. Longhorns have a special innate hardiness. They ran feral for 400 years in south and southwestern United States. They developed disease resistance, drought tolerance, and a wider palate than most other breeds. They have small babies which makes calving much less stressful. My favorite thing about them though is the unique colorations. The big twisty horn is great but I love flashy longhorns with wild color patterns. We are meat eaters but health conscience as well. We raise our beef to be grass fed and grass finished. A Texas A&M study from years ago put grass fed longhorn nutrition on the same plane as wild venison and bison. We can be found on Instagram and Facebook @murrayfarmandranch or our personal website is murraylonghornranch.com. Those resources have a lot of additional resources. I also would be happy to speak with you directly through email, text, or phone conversation. Thanks you for reaching out to us!

[@headshrink1]

@@murrayfarmranch8447 I’m in Tuscaloosa AL & my wife and I bought an piece of an cattle ranch which is in the Black Belt Praire land and I’m thinking of Long Horns. My brother raises Black Angus for the meat. But he does grass fed only. Most raise Angus around here but there is an undeniable appeal to the Longhorns and their story is pure Americana. When I search Longhorn farms your is the first to pop up so that was a treat. Your passion is evident. I’ll keep studying for now. I’m not on social media since the censorship began. Thanks for responding and God bless.

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Cattle in general are a great past time! Breeding longhorns is different than a lot of other breeds. You have to market your animals a little different. You’ll never make money from a local sale barn. Longhorns offer several markets though... they are the biggest of all the lean beef cattle, the tip to tip market, trophy steer market, and head and shoulder mount market. We utilize all of them. God bless and good luck in your endeavors. If you have any questions that you feel I may be able to help you with feel free to hit me up!

[@malloryhonan9460]

@@murrayfarmranch8447 Thanks for that overview!!

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you for watching! Lots more longhorn info to come!

[@headshrink1]

Bashful is awesome.

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you! She is a farm favorite. Her daughter Barbie is near identical in color and will likely have a similar horn set.

[@davechristensen8299]

Beautiful colors!

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you! We appreciate you watching the video!

[@davechristensen8299]

@@murrayfarmranch8447 A friend in my town has a longhorn herd. It seems like most of them are all roan. You seem to have collected a lot of beautiful and varied color genes. I especially like this brindled one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYimpJ2hlMx6j6s and the darker spotted one that follows. Black and white marked are the most beautiful, but they are hard to find. There is a common gene among African cattle that makes a white stripe down the back and limits the main color to a big patch on the side. That would be useful in the hot desert sun so that the hot sunlight reflects off the spine and neck and does not absorb heat. Last year thousands of black angus died in a feedlot in SW Kansas during a heat wave. None of the Herefords died. Herefords have white heads and white back of their necks to keep their heads from cooking. And their red attracts less heat than the black. Red Angus do better than blacks in hot climates. Black Angus came from the far Northeast peninsula of Scottland, jetting into the freezing North Sea, farther North than parts of Sweeden. They developed for cold tolerance along with shaggy breeds like the Scotch Highland. People often do not think about place of origin when choosing a breed for their location. Animals and plants have thousands of genes for climate and environment. I rescued from extinction, and develop the Indian Corns of Montana and the North Plains. They are now feeding people around the world in climates that cannot grow commercial corn.

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

That’s amazing. We chose the Longhorn due to their versatility and hardiness. The Longhorn breed was thought to be brought to America by the Spanish. Herds ran feral in the United States for 400 years. They inhabited places like Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, and Oklahoma without supplemental feed, immunizations, help with birthing, etc. We feel like if you take an animal that has that much natural versatility and then provide an excellent environment the result will be an easy to manage herd. We do not have a large ranch so each animal we use in the breeding program was picked for their unique characteristics. We have animals that came from herds in Washington State, Utah, Texas, Kansas, Ohio among others. We have a beautiful group of weaned heifers right now. Some amazing colors in that group!

[@carlwoods7767]

Good job with the video.

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Thank you for watching! We hope to add a lot more longhorn content!

[@happydays0220]

👍

[@mav8903]

Forgive my ignorance, but how does this farm operate? Is this a cow calf operation?

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

We operate as a cow/calf operation for the most part. The majority of our heifers are sold to other farms as replacement heifers. Our specialty is producing flashy colored females. We love specked and brindle patterns. We have a farm to table beef operation. 90 percent of the bulls born on the ranch are filtered into the beef operation. We occasionally retain a bull to sell as a herd sire but they are few and far between.

[@Labalabaebitwe]

Thank you for loving cows,i wish we are friends i would give you one from my breeds

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

Ah thank you! We do love them! They each have their own personality. We develop such relationships with our momma cows.

[@aliceharris1998]

Volume? Barely hear

[@danielbotton637]

My daughter was born on the 3 of July

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

July 3rd of this year? My second was born August 31 this year.

[@r.lalrammawiamawia3805]

Can Longhorn cattle rearing also afford production of milk for market business

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

I do not know of anyone utilizing longhorns for milk production and don’t have any experience in that. Typically we see Jerseys and Holsteins in the US utilized for milk.

[@macy725]

Can you ride those cattle?

[@murrayfarmranch8447]

They can be halter trained to ride. Ours are not. Most of the time the ones broken to ride are trophy steers.

[@mundodakessia860]

Oi